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May 8, 2024
Immigrant parents raising their first generation American born children usually encounter moments when their children teach them an American custom or expression one can only learn from being born in America.
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Such children are raised in households with foreign cultural values mixed with new American mainstream social norms and constraints which places them between two cultural experiences. The dynamics get more complicated for the children when they are the product of two different cultural and racial backgrounds in America, like in the relationship between Kamala Harris’ parents.
Harris’ mother, Shyamala Goplan (1938-2009), was from southern India while her father, Don J. Harris, was born and raised in Jamaica. Bi-racial and bi-cultural offspring, like Harris, develop to a household’s dominate cultural input. With Harris, the dominate family and cultural influence came from her mother’s Indian side of the family as her parents divorced when she was 7-years-old.
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Harris’ Indian side of the family, as some observers have opined, must surely harbors anti-black notions and sentiments which some people say are rooted in the Indian character as India is a extremely racist country. It seems highly unlikely all members of Harris’ Indian side of the family can totally dismiss the prevailing attitude they most arguably share with their mainstream Indian culture and population, both northern and southern, which prompts them to look down on dark skin people just as they look down on the Untouchables in their country. As such, being dark, and especially being black in India will get you nowhere. Being white or light skinned is the preferred visual Indians aspire to emulate as they are the largest consumer group of skin whitening products in the world. The bad luck of being dark or black in India is always a negative experience loaded with lots of disdain and poverty.
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It is no secret most of the Indian diaspora in every country their kind have scattered to adhere to the belief of being light skinned is far better than being dark or black. It’s an idea Indians seem programmed to believe. There are certainly exceptions, but Harris’ mother most certainly bumped heads with some of her traditional family members when news of Kamala’s birth was announced to her Indian extended family. Does it matter? Of course it does as Harris’ ascent to her celebrated authentic blackness came only after her time spent at Howard University where she was awed with seeing for the first time black people in large numbers. Before Howard, Harris lived a life filled with her mother’s cultural baggage in white majority environments despite her time living in a black neighborhood in Oakland, California during her early years. Her family’s life was lightly peppered with her father’s cultural trappings as his relationship with Kamala’s mother did not last long. As a result, Harris’ cultural connections were linked and loaded with her mother’s family Indian social traits, preferences, and visits to her mother’s home town.
Yet, the official spin on Kamala Harris, whose husband is a white jew, is she is more black than she is Indian in a Rachel Dolezal kind of way while her performance as vice president has been an utter failure and embarrassment. She has accomplished nothing important or significant as vice president but she has visited black colleges, churches and institutions for news photo sessions. Yet, there is never any news of Harris visiting an Indian college, temple or institution.
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Wikipedia describes Harris: “She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president.”
Unfortunately, the ill-informed and miserable American public only see a failed black woman vice-president and not a failed Indian woman vice-president that she is when she is brought up in the news.
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Zionist Headlines:
• All Mixed Up: What Do We Call People Of Multiple Backgrounds? by Leah Donnella
• How Kamala Harris’ Tamil Grandfather influenced her mother Shyamala and his two grand daughters by Kirti Pandey
• India’s “Untouchables” Face Violence, Discrimination
• America’s ‘untouchables’: the silent power of the caste system by Isabel Wilkerson
• India’s “Untouchables” Face Violence, Discrimination by Hillary Mayell
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• Congress must let Ukraine win, say Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, Imagine Dragons, Timothy Snyder and other luminaries
• Owner of Russian gay bar arrested for ‘propaganda’
• Sen. Rick Scott Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Visits Western Wall in Israel
• GOP Rep. Tim Walberg suggests Gaza should be handled ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’
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